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Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren't doing their job.

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.